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One year PO and now it seems I'm Stage 4 :-(

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Dr Kwon discussed using radiation in spot metastasis in addition to systemic medicines. Maybe ask about that.

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@lyricw Yes, that's becoming much more common these days for oligometastatic cancer. It's called MDT (metastasis-directed therapy).

Dr Kwon has been part of a big shift in the treatment of oligometastatic prostate cancer over the past decade, from the purely-palliative

"let's keep the patient comfortable in his last couple of years"

to

"we don't know for sure yet if we can cure this sucker, but let's act as if we can"

(and in the meantime, add years or decades to the patient's life).